Greetings from Laguna! Two reminders: The next two six week series start on Wednesday evenings, Sept. 10th through October 15th and Thursday evenings, Sept. 11th through October 16th. The work we are doing together is designed to increase your personal power, self-acceptance, and self-trust. To register, call me at: (949) 494-7773 and we will take some time to explore whether this is an appropriate next step for your inner growth.

    Secondly, if you have my book: BEYOND INTELLECT: Journey Into The Wisdom of Your Intuitive Mind, the most productive way to get the highest value from it is to treat it like a valued friend who has specific and timely information just for you.

  Do this by holding it in your hands, ask the question: “What do you want me to know at this time?” And then simply allow the book to open at any random place, and read what is there until a “click” of recognition is triggered in your awareness. Then close the book until next time. Try it! It works!

 Do it the next time you are starting to doubt yourself or are feeling a bit confused about what direction to take. Let me know what happens. I love hearing from you! Warmly, Susan   


To not only accept one's own individuality, one's specific identity as a certain kind of person, but also to accept one's beauty, the shape of one's soul and the fact that living authentically transforms us and all that we touch. Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Since we are coming to the end of the summer mode, it is a perfect time to come to the last pages of the mystery. The main question that is up for answering is: “Why were you born to whoever you were born to and why don’t you fit into all the proscriptions and roles that you were told would ensure you a happy, fruitful life, if only you would placidly go along with the program?”

    Trying to be good, acceptable, and right, according to whatever standards are most popular, may be blocking you from discovering what you really want and how you need to live. Or perhaps, in order to survive, you have experienced painful amputations of leaving your family, marriages you promised under oath would be until death, or jobs that were supposed to be springboards to a better standard of living but in actuality, numbed your innate creativity and deadened your senses.

    Whatever the scenario that brought you to this notion that you are 'different' with a negative connotation, we are about to leave behind.

    You are different, diverse, distinct, unusual, special, distinguishing, varied. This is a fact not a fault. There is no need to try to convince others, or waste your energy fighting and resenting the world or specific people in your inner circle.
    In order to author your own life to your specifications, you must uncover, discover, and own your individual, inquiring, instinctive, and passionate, core self.

    The door to your inner dreams and desires remains locked until you free yourself from using all your energy to appear consistent and to prove you are acceptable. It is time to accept your own individuality. The more visible you become to yourself, the more inconsistent you will probably appear to others. Consistency creates predictability and uniformity.
 
    When we shatter our stultifying veneer of placid predictability, we ignite our passion. We claim our strength and unleash our power to change, flex, perceive, and respond. We begin to blossom and be funded by our inner wellspring of moment-to-moment guidance and direction.

    When we finally give our loyalty to ourselves, we begin the process of becoming soul-centered.

    Today is a great day to activate healing and thriving by upgrading our soul identity. Make the decision to leave the bad times behind. Your next task is to identify as many avenues as possible that will help you nurture, protect, rejuvenate and ignite a new, warm, validating and enriching, soul identity.

    What aspects of yourself do you want to open up to and embrace to further your inner and outer journey? What aspects of yourself do you want to consciously let go of, to clear the way for new experiences of the delightful and insightful kind? Who can help you thrive? What creative people, projects, and environments can you seek out, open to, and explore, to further your self-development?

    By listening to your inner longings and claiming your birthright to a full partnership with your highest and best future self, you can open to a new day, and therefore, a new life, filled with the promise of fulfillment and the satisfaction of having your feet solidly planted on your unique path.


Susan McNeal Velasquez presents on-going small group seminars on the topic of how to Unleash the Power of Your Intuition. She has been writing and producing personal development seminars for 35 years and has focused exclusively on the topic of intuition for the past 16 years. To find out how to join a local group, request information on the local seminars or to find out about individual phone consultations, Susan can be reached at: (949) 494-7773. To receive a free copy of these articles, sign up on: susanvelasquez.com or send your name and e-mail address to: SusanVelas@aol.com.